My first post on FlyerTalk doesn't exist any longer. Not even in Archives.

That's because FlyerTalk V1.o was a short lived experiment back in 1995(?) that unfortunately quickly degraded to usenet levels of bile that made a bad day in OMNI look like a ladies' garden party by comparison!

So Randy quickly put it out of it's misery and resurrected it again a few years later in May of 1998 with the FlyerTalk we all know and love today. I guess you could call it "The Passion Of The FlyerTalk."

I have to say that with the bad taste in my mouth from the first FlyerTalk experiment, that I just lurked around during this FlyerTalk's first couple of months, making my debut post (I think) on this FlyerTalk on July 25, 1998 10:54am in this post:

http://www.flyertalk.com/pasttalk/ft...ML/000051.html

And judging from that post, I'm just as boring as ever! But you'll be happy to know that I still often answer that exact same question that Rudi asked in that thread, several times a year. Some things never change. The answer has changed, however.

At least that's the earliest post of mine that I could find without really digging thread by thread. The FlyerTalk search engine does not necessarily deliver results in a strict date/time order of your own post within a thread.

[This message has been edited by PremEx (edited Mar 22, 2004).]